Decisions of Administrative or Quasi-judicial Agencies - Other Restrictive Business Practices-2005

1. The public reported that the gasoline stations in the Hualien-Taitung area owned by Taiwan Sugar Corporation did not participate in the price reduction promotion held by that company might be a result of the restraint action of the local gasoline station association of the Hualien-Taitung area and was suspected to be a violation of the Fair Trade Law
2. A complaint is filed against US company AKT Inc., and US company Applied Material Co., for indiscriminately issuing warning letters, a suspicious violation of the Fair Trade Law
3. Four Pillars Enterprise Co. filed a complaint against Avery Dennison for using a joint venture as bait to steal its trade secrets, Avery Dennison counter-charged Four Pillars Enterprise for making and disseminating false statements that are sufficient to damage its business reputation
4. FA complaint is filed against Nichia Corporation for improperly disseminating false statement that the other enterprise has infringed its patent
5. Complaints filed against Jhonghwa United Gas Filling Station of Penghu County increased the price of cylinder liquefied petroleum gas and violated the Fair Trade Law
6. Kaohsiung Rapid Transit Corporation (“KRTC”) was accused of improperly designating four ready-mix concrete businesses and excluding other businesses from entering the market, in possible violation of Article 19 (vi) of the Fair Trade Law
7. Complaints filed against Kang Hsuan, Nani, Han Lin and Jenlin textbooks publishers for restricting its trading counterparts to determine the resale prices and restraining their sales to a distribution area, in violation of the Fair Trade Law